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HISTORICAL MAP [4 records]

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Record 1 2009-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Library Science (General)
  • Cartography
CONT

... the map librarian [is] an intermediary between map collection and user... The librarian function as translator and mediator between patrons and materials is possibly more important in a historical map library than in another type, because so many of the users from the amateur genealogist to the historical researcher are unfamiliar with the potential uses of maps. Map users will often need a guide who can teach them to apply the apparatus of historical criticism to maps, as they are adept at doing to other historical sources.

CONT

Map librarians, Dr. Williams noted, are the fortunate recipients of ages worth of knowledge about the world.

OBS

map librarian: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Bibliothéconomie (Généralités)
  • Cartographie
DEF

Personne gérant une cartothèque, lieu de conservation et de consultation de cartes géographiques.

OBS

cartothécaire : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Geography (General)
CONT

Presented entirely in early Greek, the double hemispherical map is surrounded by smaller gloves, spheres, astronomical diagrams and historical and contemporary map projections.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
DEF

A map which illustrates features or phenomena which existed or apparently existed in the past.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie
DEF

Carte représentant des phénomènes survenus dans le passé.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biogeography
  • Ecology (General)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

Glenn and Nudds used historical range maps of mammals to generate the estimated pristine relationships for mammals.

OBS

The raw data of historical zoogeography are the distributions or tracks of individual species of animals in space (geographical ecology) and time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biogéographie
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
OBS

Terme proposé à partir de «aire de répartition géographique», relevé dans la justification qui suit.

OBS

[La biogéographie] est pour le géographe une discipline riche d'informations : les variations actuelles et passées à la surface du globe [...] sont en effet révélées de manière souvent très fines par les aires de répartition géographique actuelles des espèces [...]

Spanish

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